Tsuitate no Danjo

Tsuitate no Danjo (衝立の男女, "Man and Woman by a Partitioning Screen", c. 1797) is a title given to a multicolour print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro.

Ukiyo-e art flourished in Japan during the Edo period from the 17th to 19th centuries, and took as its primary subjects courtesans, kabuki actors, and others associated with the "floating world" lifestyle of the pleasure districts.

[4] Utamaro experimented with line, colour, and printing techniques to bring out subtle differences in the features, expressions, and backdrops of subjects from a wide variety of class and background.

[5] Tsuitate no Danjo is a multicolour nishiki-e print made with ink on handmade washi paper[6] in ōban size, about 39 by 26 centimetres (15 in × 10 in).

[6] A wakashū (adolescent male) and young woman stand by a tsuitate portable partition, of a type covered with silk gauze over an opening in the middle to allow a breeze to pass through in the heat of summer.